French, 19th century, male.
Born 1 January 1836, in Mechelen, to French parents; died 1 April 1894, in Paris.
Engraver (etching/burin).
Abot studied under Gaucherel. He was among the artists retained by the publisher Goupil, whose titles included the journal L'Art and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts...
Flemish School, 19th century, male.
Born 1794, in Bruges; died 1863.
Miniaturist.
This artist was a pupil of Ducq and displayed outstanding ability from the very start of his career. In 1833 he went to Paris, where he collaborated on the Journal des Gens du Monde...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 1803, in New Germantown (New Jersey); died 1880, in Morristown (New Jersey).
Engraver (wood).
Joseph Alexander Adams worked for several years as a printer and then devoted himself to engraving on wood, which he initially studied alone. He later received advice from the engraver Alexander Anderson. He became a master and, with his pupils and collaborators, undertook the great work that made his reputation, ...
(b Burgess Hill, Sussex, 1849; d London, Aug 17, 1933).
English architect, editor and draughtsman. After completing his articles with H. N. Goulty of Brighton, he became assistant to William Ralph Emerson, and Architect to Brighton Council. Between 1872 and 1923 he was Editor of Building News. He instituted the Building News Designing Club, which enabled young architects to submit designs for his criticism. He contributed largely to the paper’s illustrations, redrawing designs for lithographic reproduction, and covered a wide range of subjects in a skilful and accurate, if somewhat dull, linear style. He also published several architectural books. Through the owner of Building News he obtained his major architectural commissions, notably Camberwell Polytechnic and Art Gallery (1902). He also designed country houses near London, for example Queensmead Cottage, Kings Road, Windsor, Berks (1883), for Reginald Talbot, as well as in Australia (e.g. Bellevue Hill, Double Bay, for Charles B. Fairfax in the mid-1880s) and America, where he designed timber houses in New Jersey for E. S. Wilde in ...
German, 19th century, male.
Born 1780, in Nuremberg.
Engraver (line-engraving).
A pupil of Ambroise Gabler, he specialised in work for printers. Two portraits by him are mentioned, one of Marie Reizammer and one of Nanette Kuhn.
Spanish, 18th – 19th century, male.
Painter.
Adriazola was also a mathematician, journalist and soldier.
Russian, 19th century, male.
Active between 1809 and 1826 in Moscow.
Engraver (line-engraving).
This artist belonged to the school of the Moscow printer and collector P.P. Beketov. Under the direction of J. Rosanov, N.Z. Sokolov and A.J. Ossipov, Afanasiev engraved a series of three hundred portraits of famous Russians, published in three volumes between ...
German, 19th century, male.
Engraver (steel).
This artist worked mainly for publisher G. G. Lange in Darmstadt.
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 4 June 1867, in Grenoble; died 1933, in Grenoble.
Painter, watercolourist. Landscapes.
André Albertin was a journalist and art critic who learned painting from Laurent Guétal and Ernest Hareux. He exhibited at the various Paris Salons in 1895, 1896 and ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1826, in Brioude (Haute-Loire).
Sculptor.
Jean François Alluys's study for a Female Nude was presented to the St-Omer Museum in 1839. The catalogue editor correctly observes that, on the basis of the dates given, the bust in question is ostensibly the work of a thirteen-year-old. It seems possible, not to say probable, that an error has occurred and that it may be more properly attributed to Jean François Alluys, who was born in Brioude in ...
Swedish, 19th century, male.
Born 11 January 1877, in Stockholm; died 28 November 1906.
Draughtsman, illustrator.
Oskar Andersson was a cartoonist who worked for numerous illustrated journals.
Stockholm, 21 Nov 1988: A Dream (ink and watercolour, a pair, each 13½ × 9½ ins/34.5 × 24 cm) ...
French, 19th century, female.
Engraver (stippling).
Mme André worked for the Parisian publisher Papavoine. According to Füssli, she was responsible for the engraving of the Foundling, from an original drawing by Countess Lavinia Spencer.
French, 19th century, male.
Born 13 December 1780, in Paris; died 3 August 1855.
Painter.
Louis Arsenne tried his hand at various painting genres but enjoyed more success as an author and publisher. Among his books is his Painter and Sculptor's Handbook ( Manuel du peintre et du sculpteur...
British, 19th century, male.
Print publisher, engraver.
Robert Ashby was cited by Charles Le Blanc as active in London in 1803. A single engraving is known: H. Ashby, Writing Engraver.
British, 19th century, male.
Active in London.
Engraver (burin), print publisher.
British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1898, in Liverpool; died 1978, in London.
Sculptor, painter, printer. Portraits, cityscapes, still-lifes.
Arnold Auerbach took art classes at the Liverpool Institute as a boy before going on to study at the Liverpool School of Art. He also studied in Paris and in Switzerland. He was enlisted during World War I, but was invalided out of the army in ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born in Paris.
Engraver (wood).
A pupil of Verdeil, Joseph Ausseau worked on the journals Art and Monde Illustré. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1869, chiefly showing wood engravings after Bida, Bonnet, Bocourt, Chapu, Morni, de Neuville and Detaille....
(b New York, March 17, 1822; d New York, Aug 11, 1904)
American wood-engraver, art dealer, collector and philanthropist. Avery’s career as a wood-engraver and his involvement with the New York publishing trade began in the early 1840s. He worked for, among others, Appleton’s, the New York Herald and Harper’s and produced illustrations for trade cards, religious tracts, adventure stories and children’s books. By the early 1850s Avery had begun compiling humorous books and commissioning drawings from such artist-illustrators as Felix Octavius Carr Darley, John Whetten Ehninger, Augustus Hoppin (1827–96), Tompkins Harrison Matteson and John McLenan (1827–66). His business contacts led to close relationships with such artists as Frederick Church, John F. Kensett and William Trost Richards.
By the late 1850s Avery had begun to collect drawings and small cabinet pictures by local artists. Other art collectors, notably William T. Walters, asked Avery’s advice when commissioning works of art. In 1864 he turned his engraving practice over to ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 17 March 1822, in New York; died 11 August 1904, in New York.
Engraver.
When he became a publisher and art dealer in 1865, Samuel Putnam Avery completely gave up wood-engraving and confined himself to burin engraving.
British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Draughtsman.
George R. Aylmer contributed illustrations, mainly of historical subjects, to the London Art Journal.
